This was for the consumption of American schoolchildren. From the looks of it, they might have been better informed about the geography of the British Isles than are many of today's British schoolchildren.
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9:16am on Thursday, 4th June, 2015:
Anecdote
From my 1869 edition of Cornell's Grammar School Geography:
This was for the consumption of American schoolchildren. From the looks of it, they might have been better informed about the geography of the British Isles than are many of today's British schoolchildren.
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